On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 09:56 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > Why? Goobox certainly isn't the type of application we would want using > a dark theme. It's not presenting video, or images, so it shouldn't be > using the dark theme variant.
Do we have a rationale for using dark themes for multimedia apps? I can think of several reasons to use them, with various degrees of badness: - Adobe Lightroom and Final Cut Pro use a dark theme, and we are doing cargo-cult themes - if we use a dark theme, our apps will be as good as theirs. - Dark themes are really intended to be "neutral gray", which all photographers who ever used film know to be around 18% gray. Who knows if our RGB value is actually that, and at what gamma value. - Graphic design / photography / video people who look closely at pixels all day long really hate the glare caused by light-colored themes, windows without thick curtains, and wristwatches with too much fluorescent compound on the numbers. - Dark means professional and expensive. The white iPhone causes deep distress and attraction, though. You can consider this a flame or not, depending on the gamma value you choose :) Federico _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list